@harbourbirds.bsky.social 5R0 is currently fishing on the River Axe in Devon from a local report

We have an egg!! At 12:56pm today CJ7 laid her first egg on the @careyssecretgarden.bsky.social www.birdsofpooleharbour.co.uk/osprey-news/...

Forster’s Tern in Lytchett Bay now @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Nice comparison of wheatear ‘types’ this AM at Greenlands Farm, Studland with both nominate Northern Wheatear (left) and Greenland sub species (right) feeding next to one another @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Osprey mania! Had 2 circling over Holton Lee about an hour ago, then driving through Wareham Forest just now one was circling over Morden Bog with a fish….and one has just powered over north Lytchett Matravers, plus one on Middlebere platform @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Spice

What now?

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Forster’s Tern fishing a few meters off the cycle path in Holes Bay SE with Sandwich Terns, just down from Asda car park @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

QUICK UPDATE: more good news. Our male Osprey from our second nest '374' has arrived back safely & is now paired back with 1H1. We just need 5H3 to return now & try to pair with a wandering/visiting female. Here's keeping everything crossed for a successful 2026 season @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Add France to the list. One by one, U.S. allies are shutting their airspace to American military operations.

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

The Osprey Mark photographed this afternoon then went and settled on the nest platform in Middlebere at RSPB Arne for several hours eating the fish, until she then went to roost just before darkness. Here she is on our monitoring camera @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

5H1 was our first ever Osprey chick to fledge from Poole Harbour back in 2022. The first in Southern England for c180 years! She herself now breeds up in the East Midlands & briefly visited the Manton Bay nest at Rutland y’day. She is truly a historic & important bird. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

5H1, Intrudes the Manton Bay Nest.

Chicken Sunday

@harbourbirds.bsky.social 5 White tailed eagles displaying together over Arne 11.30 from Ham Common

022 delivering a huge bass to CJ7 on first arriving at the nest this morning! @careyssecretgarden.bsky.social

They’re back 💪💪 After CJ7’s arrival last night at 18:29, her mate, male 022 just arrived back this morning at 06:40. Brilliant news. Let the 2026 season commence 🎉🎉🎉 @careyssecretgarden.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Sunday sustenance

Osprey over Wareham Common headed towards Wareham fast. The Osprey season here has started 💪@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Nice to find this White-spotted Bluethroat at Swineham this evening feeding with 3-4 Stonechat @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social 📸 Ed Betteridge

Last night seemed like optimum conditions for some of our winter migrants to start heading home. About an hour after set there was quite an intense Redwing passage for a couple of hours until about 21:30 when the low cloud cover cleared and birds started gaining height @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Snow Bunting at the Lytchett Bay feeding station this afternoon was pretty random! Aldo at Swineham this evening 1 (possibly 2) Bittern left at dusk, plus c60 Sand Martin bombing around and 1 Little Ringed Plover flying around calling @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Choose your fighter

For anyone wanting to see the Forster’s Tern, apparently it’s showing brilliantly in Poole Park near the model boating lake. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Wow! Not what you would have expected to see out of the office window in Southern England a few years ago. Adult White-tailed Eagle and 2 Common Crane circling together over the Piddle Valley late morning @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

A ridiculous total of NINE Bittern have just been circling over Swineham GP, with none actually leaving, rather all settled back down into the fringes again. Crazy!!! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Great Bustard was a surprise arrival this morning on Ballard Down, found by Brian Edge. Only the 3rd Poole Harbour record. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Unfortunately we’ve had to take the decision to cancel this morning’s Jerry’s Point Pop-up 9am-11am due to staff illness. We have more upcoming free pop-ups, which you can find here: www.birdsofpooleharbourbookings.co.uk/home/walks-i...

We only have a few Winter Safari Cruises left this March. On Friday's trip we saw 3 Goshawks (!), 2 WT Eagles, 1 Peregrine, 4 Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Curlew, Dunlin, Grey Plover, Great Northern Diver and lots more. Last few tickets remaining… www.birdsofpooleharbourbookings.co.uk/event/winter...

The now annual Forster’s Tern has reappeared in the harbour this evening, several weeks earlier than previous years. More typically it’s been appearing in late March. Wonder how long it will hang around?? @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social 📸 Joe Parker

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Last chance to join us for a Nocturnal Wader Ringing Demo this winter. Last few tickets for this Wednesday 25th Feb. www.birdsofpooleharbourbookings.co.uk/event/sunnys...

Incredible ringing recovery this AM by Stour Ringing Group of a Kestrel caught near Arne which was carrying a Dutch ring and a sat-tag. Well done for getting the data so quickly. Amazing movement for a bird that typically isn’t considered to move large distances. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Hi all, many thanks for the messages over the weekend regarding our website. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, it seems like we won’t be able to get it sorted until Monday. Please bear with us and we should have it back up and running again soon. Cheers: The BoPH team. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Incredible news! In 2022 The first chick to fledge for 180 years in the South of England was female ‘5H1’. Last year she raised 3 of her own chicks near Rutland including 8R3, which our team ringed. 8R3 was just seen in the Gambia by Fansu Bojang. Great to see 3rd generation Ospreys now thriving!

Smeuse

Blue and gold

No Ospreys yet, but this Crossbill was keen to get in on the action before the season gets underway! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @peter-purbeck.bsky.social

Waiting

Midnight Oil

We're thrilled to be speaking at the 2026 Careys Secret Garden Migration Festival, running from February 13th-15th. We can share with you a 20% discount code for tickets for Friday & Sunday, for BoPH supporters. Enter the code BOPH20 at checkout. www.careyssecretgarden.co.uk/products/mig...

We’ve been out prepping and servicing various Osprey nests around the harbour (more on that later) but massive thanks to the RSPB Arne team who allowed us to install a camera on a favoured perch for migrant Ospreys so we can read ring numbers. Raven said hello today! @rspbengland.bsky.social

I needed a spice hit

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